Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey proposed a state budget this week, clocking in at $58 billion.
It's not the final budget. That will have to be approved by the Massachusetts Legislature and will come replete with its own set of local pork projects. But even the budget Healey proposed is fiscally irresponsible.
The city of Boston has hired two teams of researchers to document the city's historical ties to slavery and its effects and to provide a report for the city's Reparations Task Force.
One team consists of Kerri Greenidge, a professor at Tufts University; Kendra Field, also a professor at Tufts; and Kyera Singleton, executive director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters, a historic site in Medford. That group is supposed to study the years 1620 to 1940, according to a press release.
